Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir

by Elizabeth Miki Brina

Book Overview

A "hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity" (NPR) and a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran--and her own, fraught cultural heritage.

Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525657347
• ISBN13: 9780525657347
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.3"